Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau

Greatest, Thought, Answer

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau

Busy, Enough, Question

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

Environmental, God, Men

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

Keep, Learn, Ourselves

The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

Women, Gossip, Old

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau

Motivational, Life, Health

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau

Technology, Men, Become

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau

Success, Goal, Dark

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Success, Busy, Looking

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

Sleep, Dark, Put

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau

Investment, Goodness, Fails

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Before, Equal, Thousand

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Experience, Wealth

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Down, Write

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Faith, Happiness, Seed

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

Society, Put, House

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau

Give, Late, Prejudices

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau

Justice, Sweet, Injustice

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Around, Turn

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau

Money, Soul, Necessity

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Wisdom, Ignorance

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

Heart, Rather, Sensitive

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12, 1817

Died: May 6, 1862

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